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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2019 03:25:27 UTC Mike Gerwitz
   EFF: "Device ‘Ownership’ Is a Civil Liberties Issue"
   
   https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/device-ownership-civil-liberties-issue
   
   > The technology you rely on to interact with the world and express yourself should ultimately obey you, not the company that made it.
   
   I agree with the article, but even if the DMCA didn't exist, you _still_ wouldn't have ownership over almost all mobile devices on the market. If your device were running free/libre software, then you would. And if a manufacturer created a libre device, then surely they wouldn't exercise the DMCA, as that would effectively make it non-free (and may even violate certain licenses, like the Tivoization clause of the GPLv3).
   
   I don't mean to downplay the importance of the emphasis on the DMCA, but the article makes a number of points that are central to the issue of software freedom without making so much as a mention of it.